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Bitter fruit : the story of the American coup in Guatemala / Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlesinger, Stephen C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- Guatemala--History--Revolution, 1954.
- Guatemala.
- History.
- Guatemala--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Guatemala.
- United States.
- United Fruit Company.
- Local Subjects:
- United Fruit Company.
- Guatemala--History--Revolution, 1954.
- Guatemala--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Guatemala.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies ; London : Harvard University Press (distributor,), [1999]
- Summary:
- Bitter Fruit recounts in telling detail the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. The 1982 book has become a classic, a textbook case study of Cold War meddling that succeeded only to condemn Guatemala to decades of military dictatorship. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government publications and documents, as well as interviews with former CIA and other officials. The Harvard edition includes a powerful new introduction by historian John Coatsworth, Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; an insightful prologue by Richard Nuccio, former State Department official who revealed recent evidence of CIA misconduct in Guatemala to Congress; and a compelling afterword by coauthor Stephen Kinzer, now Istanbul bureau chief for the New York Times, summarizing developments that led from the 1954 coup to the peace accords that ended Guatemala's civil strife forty years later.
- Contents:
- Maps
- Guatemala 1
- The Voyage of the Alfhem 3
- The Invasion Route 5
- 1 The Battle Begins 7
- 2 A Teacher Takes Power 25
- 3 An Age of Reform 37
- 4 The Clouds Gather 49
- 5 The Overload: The United Fruit Company 65
- 6 Advertisements for Myself 79
- 7 Operation Success 99
- 8 The Liberator 119
- 9 The Proconsul 131
- 10 The Secret Voyage of the "Alfhem" 147
- 11 The Final Countdown 159
- 12 Arbenz Fights Back 173
- 13 The Longest Day 191
- 14 The Liberation 205
- 15 The Aftermath 227
- Afterword / Stephen Kinzer 257.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1982.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674075900
- OCLC:
- 43751840
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